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What can the UK's crowdfunding and alternative finance community look forward to in 2016? We've looked through everybody's end of year lists and our archives, and have picked seven themes to engage with as we start 2016.

Peer-to-peer lending carries risk and the FCA has warned platforms not to compare returns to savings accounts. It's misleading, says the regulator. The problem is, everybody does it.

We don't mean all the peer-to-peer lenders. We mean the mainstream media and the financial pages of quality newspapers. The critics of crowdfunding and the skeptics do it as much as advocates and marketers.

New UK crowdfunding firms are waiting an average of six months to be authorised by the regulator. Compliance consultancy Bovill said just two crowdfunding firms had been authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in nine months, with a further 15 still waiting.